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Who Invented Packet-Switching?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the battle-of-giants dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "It's how the Internet works, and now who invented packet-switching is under dispute. A posthumous paper by British scientist Dr. Donald Davies disputes the claim by Leonard Kleinrock to have invented the technique, saying Kleinrock never took it beyond the case of a single node. Kleinrock, whose lab was the first node on Arpanet, is willing to concede that Davies invented the term "packet-switching.""

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  1. I believe... by dhamsaic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I believe that was Mr. Albert Gore, ex-Vice President and He Who Was Instrumental In The Creation Of Everything Internet Related.

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  2. who invented it? by crazyprogrammer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Al Gore. If he invented the internet, then he must have invented packet switching first

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  3. The answer is... neither of them by owlmeat · · Score: 4, Redundant

    According to this document,
    Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation came up with the idea and name
    of packet switching in 1962.

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